Rafael has for thirteen years created and written numerous comics, including Hellstorm, Orlak, Nosferatu, Arianne, and the critically-acclaimed Tales from the Heart (co-written with Cindy Goff). He is now writing an upcoming series based on White Wolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade, to be published by Moonstone. Speaking of his imaginative adaptation to comics form of Poe’s last-published poem The Bells, which appears in Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe. Nieves says, “I had my work cut out for me, because the poem didn’t lend itself to easy adaptation. It has a very musical quality to it, a definite rhythm that I had to preserve, at the same time wrapping a dramatic storyline around it. And of course, I had to be true to the spirit of Poe, where happy endings are few and far between.” Rafael says he is eager to write another Poe adaptation, “as soon as someone is silly enough to ask him.”